Company couldn’t justify global pandemic as reason for layoffs when they happened before pandemic hit Canada; workers deemed terminated when not recalled
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An Ontario employer was not entitled to layoff two long-term workers when its business declined because of supply chain problems in China in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the workers entitled to 22 months’ reasonable notice of termination.